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D-Index
44
Citations
6585
World Ranking
1648
National Ranking
121

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Morgan Heikal is affiliated with the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom and contributes primarily to the fields of Engineering and Chemical Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, notably Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research focuses on topics including Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, and Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Morgan Heikal cover a range of engineering and fluid dynamics topics. These include:

  • "Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry for engine flow measurements: Principles and applications", 2021, Alexandria Engineering Journal
  • "Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based on Vorticity: Application in a Two-Phase Slug Flow", 2021, Journal of Fluids Engineering
  • "Combination of linear stochastic estimation and proper orthogonal decomposition: application in two-phase slug flow", 2023, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
  • "Unveiling the Flow Behavior Inside Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Cylinder Using High-Speed Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry and Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation", 2021, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Frequent co-authors in Morgan Heikal's research include Abdul Aziz, Mohammed El-Adawy, Shahzad Munir, Muhammad Israr Siddiqui, and Mhadi A. Ismael.

Publication venues regularly featuring their work are:

  • Alexandria Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Fluids Engineering
  • Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
  • Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Morgan Heikal has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) since 2017.

Best Publications

  • Models for fuel droplet heating and evaporation: Comparative analysis

    Sergei Sazhin;T. Kristyadi;W.A. Abdelghaffar;Morgan Heikal

  • A simplified model for bi-component droplet heating and evaporation

    Sergei Sazhin;A.E. Elwardany;P.A. Krutitskii;G. Castanet

  • Multi-component droplet heating and evaporation: Numerical simulation versus experimental data

    Sergei S. Sazhin;A Elwardany;P.A. Krutitskii;Valérie Deprédurand

  • Microscopic imaging of the initial stage of diesel spray formation

    Cyril Crua;Morgan R. Heikal;Martin R. Gold

  • Models for droplet transient heating: effects on droplet evaporation, ignition, and break-up

    Sergei Sazhin;W.A. Abdelghaffar;Elena Sazhina;Morgan Heikal

  • A model for fuel spray penetration

    Sergei Sazhin;G. Feng;Morgan Heikal

  • The effect of compression ratio on exhaust emissions from a PCCI diesel engine

    O. Laguitton;Cyril Crua;T. Cowell;Morgan Heikal

  • A Detailed Modelling of the Spray Ignition Process in Diesel Engines

    Elena Sazhina;Sergei Sazhin;Morgan Heikal;V.I. Babushok

  • Transient heating of diesel fuel droplets

    Sergei Sazhin;P.A. Krutitskii;W.A. Abdelghaffar;Elena Sazhina

  • Two- and three-dimensional numerical models of flow and heat transfer over louvred fin arrays in compact heat exchangers

    K.N. Atkinsona;R. Drakulic;M.R. Heikal;T.A. Cowell

  • The Shell autoignition model: applications to gasoline and diesel fuels

    E.M. Sazhina;S.S. Sazhin;M.R. Heikal;C.J. Marooney

  • Modelling of biodiesel fuel droplet heating and evaporation

    Sergei Sazhin;M. Al Qubeissi;R. Kolodnytska;A.E. Elwardany

  • A simple model for puffing/micro-explosions in water-fuel emulsion droplets

    Sergei Sazhin;Oyuna Rybdylova;Cyril Crua;Morgan Heikal;Morgan Heikal

  • Heating and evaporation of semi-transparent diesel fuel droplets in the presence of thermal radiation

    L.A. Dombrovsky;Sergei Sazhin;Elena Sazhina;G. Feng

  • New approaches to numerical modelling of droplet transient heating and evaporation

    Sergei Sazhin;W.A. Abdelghaffar;P.A. Krutitskii;Elena Sazhina

  • Flow and heat transfer in compact louvered fin surfaces

    T.A. Cowell;M.R. Heikal;A. Achaichia

  • Two-phase heat transfer coefficients of three HFC refrigerants inside a horizontal smooth tube, part I: evaporation

    X. Boissieux;M.R. Heikal;R.A. Johns

  • A multi-dimensional quasi-discrete model for the analysis of Diesel fuel droplet heating and evaporation

    S.S. Sazhin;M. Al Qubeissi;R. Nasiri;V.M. Gun’ko

  • Thermal Ignition Analysis of a Monodisperse Spray with Radiation

    Sergei Sazhin;G. Feng;Morgan Heikal;I. Goldfarb

  • Spectral properties of diesel fuel droplets

    L.A. Dombrovsky;Sergei Sazhin;Sergey Mikhalovsky;R. Wood

  • A model for droplet heating and its implementation into ANSYS Fluent

    O. Rybdylova;M. Al Qubeissi;M. Al Qubeissi;M. Braun;C. Crua

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergei Sazhin
Sergei Sazhin University of Brighton
Suzana Yusup
Suzana Yusup Sunway University
Sergey V. Mikhalovsky
Sergey V. Mikhalovsky University of Brighton
Lyle M. Pickett
Lyle M. Pickett Sandia National Laboratories
Marco Marengo
Marco Marengo University of Pavia
Bing-Yang Cao
Bing-Yang Cao Tsinghua University
Pierre-Alexandre Glaude
Pierre-Alexandre Glaude University of Lorraine
John Griffiths
John Griffiths University of Leeds
Vladimir M. Gun’ko
Vladimir M. Gun’ko National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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